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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII: The Earth and Her Inhabitants.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the prime mover trying to imitate?
(a) The presentation of the earth.
(b) The orbit of the moon.
(c) God's perfection.
(d) Nature.

2. What did medieval man think guided the celestial spheres?
(a) The prime mover.
(b) God.
(c) Their own intelligence.
(d) Fairies.

3. What is the story about Cato and Marcia an allegory for?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Lust.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Adultery.

4. What did the term "the end of the earth" mean to medieval people?
(a) The separating space between earth and sky.
(b) The edge of known geography.
(c) The separation between the realm of gods and the realm of men.
(d) The edge of the flat earth.

5. What did medieval man think the universe was a series of?
(a) Patterns and ideas.
(b) Matter.
(c) Concentric spheres.
(d) Repetitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Scipio Minor plan to meet the gods?

2. What did medieval men think only a wise man could do?

3. Which of these was NOT one of the kinds of souls believed in by medieval man?

4. Why was it harder for pagans to write about nature?

5. Who used the prime mover for his own purposes according to medieval beliefs?

(see the answer key)

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